When you look at early pictures of Trayvon, he looks like a bright boy with a love of life and a bright future. But when you look at his later photos, he's transformed into a thug or wannabe thug.

I don't really have a comment about the shooting, but it just seems like if George Z didn't do it, someone else would have at some point.

What's tragic here is the cycle of violence and culture of violence among African American youths that turns kids with a chance at success into the 70% of black men who are caught up in the American criminal justice system.

Pot doesn't cause violence and it is better than alcohol, but it isn't true that people who smoke pot are categorically not violent. I'm guessing the percentage of people in prison who have smoked marijuanna is pretty close to 100% vs. 50 or 60% (?) for the general population. It's not like it is rare to find a teenage tough guy wannabe who smokes pot.

AverageAmericanGuy:When you look at early pictures of Trayvon, he looks like a bright boy with a love of life and a bright future. But when you look at his later photos, he's transformed into a thug or wannabe thug.

I don't really have a comment about the shooting, but it just seems like if George Z didn't do it, someone else would have at some point.

What's tragic here is the cycle of violence and culture of violence among African American youths that turns kids with a chance at success into the 70% of black men who are caught up in the American criminal justice system.

So is George Zimmerman. But he's just the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. No way that's ever happend to a black person.

DROxINxTHExWIND:AverageAmericanGuy: When you look at early pictures of Trayvon, he looks like a bright boy with a love of life and a bright future. But when you look at his later photos, he's transformed into a thug or wannabe thug.

I don't really have a comment about the shooting, but it just seems like if George Z didn't do it, someone else would have at some point.

What's tragic here is the cycle of violence and culture of violence among African American youths that turns kids with a chance at success into the 70% of black men who are caught up in the American criminal justice system.

So is George Zimmerman. But he's just the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. No way that's ever happend to a black person.

Zimmerman isn't the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. The prosecutor knows he isn't guilty and is just going through the motions because he was told to. At least, that's what I ASSume. An ahole can become a prosecutor and even be a damn fine one, but not a complete moron.

DROxINxTHExWIND:AverageAmericanGuy: When you look at early pictures of Trayvon, he looks like a bright boy with a love of life and a bright future. But when you look at his later photos, he's transformed into a thug or wannabe thug.

I don't really have a comment about the shooting, but it just seems like if George Z didn't do it, someone else would have at some point.

What's tragic here is the cycle of violence and culture of violence among African American youths that turns kids with a chance at success into the 70% of black men who are caught up in the American criminal justice system.

So is George Zimmerman. But he's just the victim of an overzealous prosecutor. No way that's ever happend to a black person.

Is the President of the United States weighing in on a lot of cases these days or just cases where a black person seems to be done wrong by whitey...or a half cuban half jewish mix of some kind?

There is no doubt that folks get railroaded by overeager DA looking to make a name for themselves as being tough on crime. And there are waaaaaay to many kids in jail on bs possesion charges, but let's be honest about the nature of this case.

ikanreed:If there's one group of people who need their character defamed, it's people who were shot to death at an extremely young age.

This ...I am ranting an raving about this whole thing.

SlothB77:This alone provides enough reasonable doubt that the jury has no choice but to find zimmerman not guilty.

2/10 for trolling ...or is that sarcasm?

I for one think that 2nd degree murder is a bit much. From what I can tell, Zimmerman made a horrible horrible mistake and a young man ended up dead. That sounds like manslaughter to me. Whether or not that mistake was driven by racial or cultural prejudice does not matter unless you judge him with your emotions. I prefer not to.

I actually don't even understand how anything is relevant past the point where Zimmerman went on foot tracking him down. Dude, you created the situation when it was easily avoided. Zimmerman was the aggressor. I might have attempted to beat his ass as well if he were following me barking orders in the middle of the night.

Oh_Enough_Already:Given his current thuglife course trajectory he'd have been either dead or in jail for killing somebody else within a year, and given the fact it would have been a black person who killed him or who he killed we never ever would have heard about him and (rightfully) not a single fark would have been given.

Wow! You should become an FBI profiler or something. The way you extrapolated all of that from your meager knowledge of Trayvon Martin is just amazing.

Perlin Noise:I actually don't even understand how anything is relevant past the point where Zimmerman went on foot tracking him down. Dude, you created the situation when it was easily avoided. Zimmerman was the aggressor. I might have attempted to beat his ass as well if he were following me barking orders in the middle of the night.

Guilty or not, nothing changes the fact that if you subtract a fat, loser asshole looking to feel like a tough guy from the situation, nobody dies.

calm like a bomb:Perlin Noise: I actually don't even understand how anything is relevant past the point where Zimmerman went on foot tracking him down. Dude, you created the situation when it was easily avoided. Zimmerman was the aggressor. I might have attempted to beat his ass as well if he were following me barking orders in the middle of the night.

Guilty or not, nothing changes the fact that if you subtract a fat, loser asshole looking to feel like a tough guy from the situation, nobody dies.

I totally completely fully agree with this. This was his horrible mistake.

AverageAmericanGuy:When you look at early pictures of Trayvon, he looks like a bright boy with a love of life and a bright future. But when you look at his later photos, he's transformed into a thug or wannabe thug.

I don't really have a comment about the shooting, but it just seems like if George Z didn't do it, someone else would have at some point.

What's tragic here is the cycle of violence and culture of violence among African American youths that turns kids with a chance at success into the 70% of black men who are caught up in the American criminal justice system.

That's because, sadly, their lives were tragically destroyed by the Devil Weed, the Corrupter of Youth...MARIHUANA!!!o_0

Oh_Enough_Already:I have to wonder if the black community is actually secretly hoping for an acquittal.

Not so they can protest riot - they seldom need an excuse for that - but because when one or dozen of them get shot and killed by the whites they're attacking in the process they'll have one or a dozen new Trayvons to canonize, trials to follow, excuses to ratchet up their hatred of creepy-ass crackers, etc.

If you think about it, an acquittal would be very good for the outrage business and the scores of "revruns" who make a living fomenting hatred.

damn dude ...sounds like you need to join a neighborhood watch. Is your community gated as to protect it from "those people"?